Arkansas. Were at the Clinton House museum near the edge of the campus. This house was built in 1931 by a local man. It has been on the it was on the outskirts of town at that time. This was a pretty fancy house for that era. The clintons bought this house and did a little bit of remodeling but for the most part the house was entirely original to 1931. The house became a National Historic registered property in 2010 and the street became clinton avenue in 2010 as well. This is the living room, the famous room where no clinton and Hillary Rodham were married in front of this big window on october 11, 1975. Bill bought this house when hillary was out of town and surprised her with it. She came back into town and he said, i bought that house you thought was ready and now you have to marry me. I cant live there long. She said yes. That was his third try. Windows, all of it is a big, while room for a living room, it is a small place to get married and the clintons had only 10 guests for their wedding. It was the two of them, a couple of Close Friends and family. That was it, very modest. One of the visitor favorite things to see is that wedding dress. This is a faithful replica of hillarys wedding dress. It was made by a little rock designer who was a longtime friend of the clintons. Dress at hert this mothers insistence. She was going to pull something out of the closet and her mother said, no we are going to the store you have to get a nice dress. They pulled this Jessica Mcclintock debbie saxe dress off sax dress off the rack. Hillary decided to keep her own name, Hillary Rodham, which was or anywherearkansas at that time. Both mothers hoped she would change her name but she stayed was very happyl about that. They had just graduated from laws goal and identity years worth of other things before coming here, but they were just a young couple like so many others. They did not have any money, did not have any furniture, were just getting started. With friends, traveling back and forth to little rock, doing other kinds of campaign things. They traveled a lot in those years. They did not have a lot of money but they spent a lot of time Building Networks and friendships. The art to participate in public for both. Came early hillary was very active in a lot of political movements and campaigns. Her graduation address at wellesley made a national splash. It was fairly radical for that time. She went on to Yale Law School and that is where she met bill. Bill moody was going to be a Political Animal from his high school years. Knew he was going to be a Political Animal from his high school years, he met president before just a few months he was assassinated. He worked on a lot of campaigns, worked for frank colts and arkansas, and james fulbright. He knew this was going to be the path he would take and he gained a lot of experience before running for office himself. Before the clintons were married and bill was living east of town for decided he would run congress and he talked it over with the dean of the law school who gave him his blessing, promised his support. He was running against John Paul Hammerschmidt and he had asked several other people to run against hammerschmidt and nobody else when it to do it, they wanted to run for other things. He finally decided maybe it should be him. Everybody thought he was fighting a losing battle and probably he was and he knew it but he openly said he did not think it could hurt his future chances at other offices and he was correct. That Early Campaign in 1974 he lost to hammerschmidt but only about by 6000 votes which was pretty remarkable for a newcomer against a very broad republican district. He often says losing that Congressional Election enabled him to go to the white house. If he had won the election for congress, he wouldve gone to washington and stay there but his decision to stay in arkansas and be the governor even led to his bid for the white house. One of the fun things about this room, the dining room, or most people use it as a dining room, the clintons used as campaign headquarters. Bill had decided to run for attorney general two years after losing to John Paul Hammerschmidt and he had two primary contenders. He won quite handily, actually in the statewide primary race and he did not have a contender in the general election. So he was running his northwest arkansas part of the attorney Generals Campaign from here in the dining room. Because he did not have a heeral election opponent, was able to work on behalf of jimmy carter in 19 them b6 and he was carters arkansas at chair. Carter went on to win 65 of the arkansas vote that year. And the time bill was running the arkansas Carter Campaign, it hillary went to indiana and ran the Carter Campaign there and. Elped set up Campaign Offices their lives were very much about political campaigns and working on behalf of democrats across the country. Bill became the attorney general rather easily in 1976 and two years later would become the countrys youngest governor in 1978. When bill and hillary were married, hillary kept her maiden which wouldve been unusual in 1975 and arkansas of course but even across the country. She really kept her look and she wore glasses and no makeup and natural hair, that kind of thing. After bill lost his second term as governor in 1980, the two of them really regrouped. You see at the beginning of the 1980s her transformation and his transformation politically, thinking about what the people needed most and her transformation into what arkansas wouldve considered in appropriate first lady. Hair, startedr wearing contact lenses, started wearing makeup, you see her close change a lot her clothing change a lot. 1982, clinton ran for governor again and won. He was able to go back to the Governors Office and had this new first lady with him. The Clinton House museum is really the Great American story, like so many others it is a great example of the best of american ideals. People can start from nowhere and they can work hard and engage in Public Service and they can do what it is they set when youd to it and get a chance to spend time in a place that other people have lived, you get to absorb some of that energy and think of how people got started in their lives and where we they would later and up. Our visitors love that idea, they like standing in this place where these two really powerful, smart people spent their early days plotting out their lives course in a house like this. Announcer hours cities tour staff recently traveled to fayetteville, arkansas, to learn about its rich history. Learn more about fayetteville and other stops on our tour at cspan. Org\citiestour. You are watching cspan3. They night on communicators, where in las vegas for the consumer electronic show where each year Tech Companies unveil new products and give insight into whats ahead. The latest on robot and drone on monday is next night, it 00 p. M. Eastern, cspan2. I am very pleased you can all be here today. I know how busy you been with events leading up to tuesdays want tos and i congratulate all of you in the house of representatives who have just been reelected. 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